Here are CBS’ renew/cancel standings for week 23 of the 2017-18 season.

Show

Status

18-49 rating

Renew/Cancel Index

Me, Myself & I

Canceled

1.0

0.3

Wisdom of the Crowd

Canceled

0.92

0.22

Madam Secretary (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.67

-0.03

Living Biblically

🐻 🐻

0.8

0.1

Superior Donuts (O)

🐻 🐻

0.94

0.24

Scorpion (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.84

0.14

NCIS: New Orleans (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.99

0.29

Man with a Plan (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.06

0.36

NCIS: Los Angeles (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.96

0.26

Criminal Minds (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻

1.01

0.31

SWAT

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.0

0.3

SEAL Team (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.06

0.36

9JKL (O)

🐻 🐻

0.97

0.27

MacGyver (F) (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.86

0.53

Life in Pieces

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.17

0.47

Bull (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.21

0.51

Mom

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.51

0.81

Hawaii Five-0 (F) (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.01

0.74

Blue Bloods (F) (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.93

0.63

NCIS (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.44

0.74

Kevin Can Wait (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.26

0.56

Young Sheldon

Renewed

2.35

1.65

The Big Bang Theory

Renewed

2.89

2.19

TV history tells us that a show’s premiere is usually one of the two or three highest-rated episodes of its season. Which means things aren’t likely to get much better for “Living Biblically.”

Which further means that, after a modest 0.8 in adults 18-49 for its premiere, the Bear is projecting a likely cancellation for the new comedy.

“Living Biblically” didn’t provide any kind of an upgrade from “9JKL,” which likewise averaged 0.8 after moving to the 9:30 p.m. Monday timeslot (and which is also likely to be canceled). With the spring ratings swoon about to begin — daylight saving time kicks in next week — it’s unlikely the show will build on its premiere. The Bear smells one and done.

Key:

DSW

Dead Show Walking: All but officially canceled yet still airing

🐻

sure bet to be canceled by May 2018

🐻 🐻

likely to be canceled by May 2018

🐻 🐻 🐻

tossup between renewal and cancellation by May 2018

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

likely to be renewed by May 2018

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

sure bet to be renewed by May 2018

The Renew/Cancel Index is the amount above (or below) a replacement-level rating — i.e., the expected adults 18-49 rating of an emergency fill-in show should a series be canceled. For the 2016-17 season, replacement level is a 0.7 same-day rating in adults 18-49 for the Big 4 networks and a 0.2 for The CW. (Read more here.) The index number is taken by subtracting 0.7 (or 0.2) from a show’s average same-day rating.

Friday scripted shows (denoted with an “F” above) on the Big 4 have average ratings about 30 percent lower than those of other nights, therefore their ratings are multiplied by 1.43 (1/0.7, or 70 percent) before subtracting the replacement-level number. Any scripted show on Saturdays will use the same formula.

Shows that have ended their seasons have their R/C Index number frozen at the point of their final episode.

(O) – Owned: All other things equal, shows owned by studios affiliated with their networks have a better shot at renewal than those from outside producers.